Actually.. The Naruto world is based of the idealistic view that our world could use some off. Mutual understanding and forgiveness. That is why Sasuke will be forgiven and understood.
And that's the absolute wrong way to go about things. So should we forgive people who commit heinous crimes? If you've ever seen the movie Hero, I think the way the Emperor handles Jet Li's character (I forget his name) is the ideal way to do things. There's no point of laws if they aren't going to be followed. If you're going to jut forgive everyone, there's no point of having rules/laws. I'm not saying to not try and have mutual understanding, but Sasuke crossed a very clear line, and now he's beyond forgiveness. If he were still his angsty self in the village trying to figure himself out and perhaps made a few mistakes with the team, fine, I can forgive that. But once he left the village on his own accord knowing exactly what he was doing and whom he was joining up with, he crossed that line and went beyond forgiveness.
And, as I said in my later post, this mutual understanding BS is this idealistc nonsense that just doesn't fly in the real world. Mutual understanding doesn't work the way Naruto looks at it. The threat of destroying another nation does. The only reason diplomacy works is because of the threat of action.
The other problem I have with the series is how Danzo is portrayed. I think Danzo's basic principles are sound. The problem is they made his views so extreme and he was a literal obstructionist. He cared more about his way than success. I think Danzo's viewpoints on some things like the (non-canon?) recent anime portrayal of the Uchiha massacre and everything behind it were sound. The problem is how he went about things and just obstructed progress like stealing the eye that could've stopped the massacre. I think he was right in how he viewed the Uchiha and how he handed much of the situation like keeping a very close eye on them. However, he went well beyond that and any legitimacy in his views were tainted.
At the same time, they take an extreme idealist like Hiruzen and make him seem to be some saint like figure when he was just a naive fool. So many issues could've been avoided if he just had the effing balls to kill Orochimaru when he had the chance. He knew exactly what kind of demon Orochimaru had become, but he just let him go. And because of that, countless lives were lost, countless families were destroyed in things like the kidnappings and such, and who knows what other kind of collateral damage. And Danzo knew exactly that. Hell, even Hiruzen admitted he was weak. The problem is in spite of that, he's not viewed with any sort of negative light. Where even if Danzo only did a fraction of the bad things he did, he'd still be looked at negatively.
That's the problem i have with this series. It's way too idealistic and can't appreciate any sort of realistic view. I'm not saying to be an extreme obstructinoist like Danzo, but I do think you have to look at and appreciate the "darker" side of things.
